FORA.tv Speaker - Tim Laning

Biography

Tim Laning co-founded the award winning Dutch serious game company Grendel Games in 2003. Medical serious games where added as a focal point as early as 2005, marking the beginning of a strong business relationship with rehabilitation technology company Motek Medical. Grendel Games creates games focusing on physical and mental rehabilitation, improvement of surgical training , and medical education for universities, hospitals, and rehabilitation institutes. Grendel Games is the first company to work with hospitals to create a laparoscopic surgery training game to be released on Nintendo consoles in 2012. Laning encouraged the founding of Gameship, The Netherlands' largest serious game development media lab.